There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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